How To Draw EVERYTHING

[peterskyekolos]

Finally some universal tutorial that actually explains drawing the way it should be explained everywhere. Not just another "How to draw this and that from one angle" video. Great!!

[sivaones]

I left instagram 10 months ago. I must say, watching this reminds me how much I miss following all my favorite artists. I don't miss the headache of social media though. Plus, it was consuming too much of my time. Good to see you're doing well. I love your work.

[rafindeed]

You know what is the problem jake ? Is that beginners want a magical solution on how to draw. This is the most efficient way to learn but it requires A LOT of patience and training so you can easily put forms together and draw something. I spent 6 months doing 8 hours everyday of studies to be confident in my lines and to have a advanced knowledge in perspective, but ppl usually stop when they failed twice or aren't patient enough to start simple.

[HallowHolic]

Still can't draw the other eye tho

[KeshArt]

I'm gonna be taking this class..gotta learn my basics... :D

[johnadams]

So I've been drawing for a couple years now and my god is this ol boy right. Shape is everything!!!! If you can see the shapes in everything and understand there relationship to everything you could be a master. That's how I feel anyway.

[kms]

god bless you dude. World needs a lot more people like you. And I hope your kindness will get back to you 10x stronger.

[TinyGuy]

Holy crap. This video was so good. I actually know why I should used shapes and you actually got me to level 1. All the other tutorials assume you know the basic fundamentals already or just say "Draw from life" without actually explaining what that means. You actually explain how to draw from life in a very simple way without making me feel stupid.

[jeduardolopezo]

Jake, I took your self-paced course, and I must say it´s been exactly what I´ve been looking for in a drawing course, It clarified so much for me, and still working on improving, re-doing and coming up with my own variations on all the exercises. I´m re-doing the whole course for the third time and combining it with the Charles Bargues Plates to improve my observational and proportion observation abilities.



I think people lose interest when they don´t see improvement in 2 days nowadays, on any ability, and especially on a craft that has been around for many hundreds of years. Would recommend to anyone the Book (or audiobook) Mastery by Robert Greene.


Thanks for making this amazing course! :)

[violetplacencia]

the way you speak passionately of your class is inspiring to me, it brings me joy to see such happiness within creatives like you. I hope your artistic journey continues to flourish and for you to keep enjoying every second of it!

[najmiezeddy]

hi Jake Parker .. I watch this video 7 month ago .. Thanks btw because I won my first Competition Of Drawing last week and now i remember who teach me this simple drawing step and keep me growing from a basic draw and making me understanding something more that you was talking .. AND it was you Jake Parker .. I really have the paper of the competition now and I hope i can show it to you and everybody here :) .. It was right ..when your brain and your eyes working together you're gonna achieve the things that you wanna draw .. And I want to tell you guys that no matter how you fail just keep going because 1 day your dreams come true .. JUST KEEP GOING!!!

[Callaxes]

The part about the brain-eye dissonance was brilliant. Even though I've been aware of this conflict every time I drew, this is the first time I've heard someone summarize it so succinctly. Well done!

However I disagree with splinting drawing into 3 stages: shape, line, tone. Maybe this is the way comic book artists think since lines are central to illustration, but I've been taught to see lines and tones as basically one and the same stage.

I think most people who come from a painting background are taught to jump from shapes to tone and ignore lines altogether.

[darthvador]

"How to draw everything"
I clicked on this video just to say that these kinds of titles are clickbait. I have spent 100's of hours watching "How to draw [insert thing I want to draw] in 1 minute" or "How to go from beginner to expert in just 5 minutes" and it wasn't until one video I saw by a professional artist that worked on AAA games where he made the same title so people like me would watch it and he says "Truth is it doesn't work that way. You'll fail a million times before you succeed once" and that changed my perspective on drawing. I now just draw and watch videos going into detail on anatomy and tips but I know that I'm not going to get better because I figured out the one secret literally every artist is hiding. You need to practice to get better. A pretty good tip I got was to look at your drawings as 3 dimensional. See the thing you're drawing in your head as this 3d object and draw it as such. An even better tip is to spend all your time drawing even if you're getting frustrated. Also, save all your drawings so a year from now you can look at your first drawing and see your progress.

[username.]

don't i already know how to draw EVERYTHING! because i watched you, huge fan jake please publish more

[terminalvelocity]

I just finished this course and its great thank you!

[zoidsfan]

Talking about how the brain interacts with the eyes is pretty spot on I feel. Funnily for me i love just doing abstracts where I toss some random lines in and see what my eyes form. I tend to create surreal pieces brimming with vibrant characters. But if I sit down with something that's sat in my head mainly I struggle. I think my big area of practice needs to be the thinking in shapes, oftentimes my pieces lack definite structure.

[deeman]

Separate "what your eyes see from what your brain knows" that is good advice, thanks

[Peteru]

I've been drawing to get better for over 10 years, but never gotten very far. At the beginning of 2017 I promised myself to draw every single day (or AT LEAST practice my hand-eye coordination skills every day). I've been at it for 8 months now *consistently* and just doing that one thing has done so much for me.
I have a long way to go before I can make something of myself, but instead of struggling with studies and complaining about my own short comings, I love doing studies and practicing because it doesn't feel like I'm struggling with the process as much anymore (bad days are further in between, but it happens).

I've practiced values, anatomy, shape language, perspective, observation, colour and light. But it wasn't until I took the draftsmanship seriously that I actually felt like I could use what I had learned. It's so silly and obvious and I'm kind of embarrassed, but I think a lot of people don't realize you have to get really confident with your coordination/lines/strokes before you can use it properly.

I saw the price, I'll be getting the course later this month. If it has even a little bit I can take away from it I feel like it'll be worth it.

[gsdls]

I love it Jake. Thank you for simplifying the way we can see things. Love your art style. Keep it up. You inspire me.

[GabrielFolli]

I've tried several times and in several ways to learn drawing. The most frustrate thing for me is not know it.
Looking at that and other videos from you (you won a new subscriber, BTW), I feel that I must give it a shot!
Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge!